Food Advocacy Research at Memorial (FARM)

Food Advocacy Research at Memorial (FARM) was convened in March 2013. We began with a meeting of faculty members interested in food studies in its various dimensions who wanted to create an opportunity to meet and exchange research and teaching ideas about food-ways, food security, food systems, etc.

We have since expanded the group to include the Memorial Campus Food Systems project which promotes Applied Student Research. ASR encourages connections between faculty and students – within and between faculties – to work on papers, honours theses, MAs and PhDs to contribute to the question of how to make food systems more sustainable. ASR also has the potential to tackle questions about how to improve campus food services and regional food systems. The Food Studies Group will also actively circulate faculty research interests for students. If you have any questions, please contact the office of the Dean of Arts.

Several members of FARM are featured in were featured in the food and water security edition of Face Forward. Grenfell economist Catherine Keske is featured with highlight stories on Dr. Catherine Mah (Faculty of Medicine, Division of Community Health and Humanities), Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee's Great Fish for a Change Initiative (Department of Geography) and FARM chair Dr. Lynne Phillips.